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Post by Steve on Apr 26, 2017 11:08:52 GMT
I sat on one of those Dorfman ones and it was fine....but I quite like the front seats at Olivier and Lyttleton and I know people sometimes find them uncomfortable!I have booked one for last production at Bridge as only cheaper but close option! ☺ Thanks Latecomer, you are right. I just got an email back from the Bridge Theatre confirming this: "A strapitan seat is narrower and folds away. It may be slightly less comfortable than the other seats around it but it is great value."
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Post by Jan on Apr 26, 2017 16:07:49 GMT
I sat on one of those Dorfman ones and it was fine....but I quite like the front seats at Olivier and Lyttleton and I know people sometimes find them uncomfortable!I have booked one for last production at Bridge as only cheaper but close option! ☺ Thanks Latecomer, you are right. I just got an email back from the Bridge Theatre confirming this: "A strapitan seat is narrower and folds away. It may be slightly less comfortable than the other seats around it but it is great value." There is no excuse at all for ANY seat in a brand new theatre to be uncomfortable.
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 26, 2017 16:27:18 GMT
Tell that to the designers of the St James Theatre who made ALL their seats uncomfortable
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Post by showgirl on Apr 26, 2017 16:59:32 GMT
Tell that to the designers of the St James Theatre who made ALL their seats uncomfortable Exactly my thought before I had even seen this response!
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Post by showgirl on Apr 26, 2017 18:02:22 GMT
Ah, but are they in the loos or the auditorium?
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Post by showgirl on Apr 26, 2017 18:06:06 GMT
Actually, Theatremonkey.com- though admittedly off-topic (apologies), your Best Seat Guide doesn't currently cover that vital area, does it? Though if you decided to expand it, it seems we could all contribute plenty of views.
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Post by fossil on Apr 27, 2017 7:40:12 GMT
Painless booking when the general booking opened at 8.00am. Same queuing system as NT. 25 or so in the queue which went down in a few minutes. If you are after cheaper seats, pricing and configuration varies with each play. I booked third row gallery 1 for Julius Caesar at £35. For the other productions these are £25 but flagged as ‘high seats’ but were not flagged as such for JC. Front row stalls for Nightfall is £40 and only £25 for Marx. All have £15 seats in the back row of gallery 3, there are only three rows on the galleries.
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Post by Jan on Apr 27, 2017 8:40:11 GMT
Painless booking when the general booking opened at 8.00am. Same queuing system as NT. 25 or so in the queue which went down in a few minutes. If you are after cheaper seats, pricing and configuration varies with each play. I booked third row gallery 1 for Julius Caesar at £35. For the other productions these are £25 but flagged as ‘high seats’ but were not flagged as such for JC. Front row stalls for Nightfall is £40 and only £25 for Marx. All have £15 seats in the back row of gallery 3, there are only three rows on the galleries. Yes, public booking for 9 months of programming opened to a wave of apathy, 40th in the queue at 8:00 all concluded by 8:10, seats at all prices for all dates for Julius Caesar except some Mondays which they seem to be holding back - I decided to appear in it in a promenade role.
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Post by edmundokeano on Apr 27, 2017 9:12:32 GMT
Painless booking when the general booking opened at 8.00am. Same queuing system as NT. 25 or so in the queue which went down in a few minutes. If you are after cheaper seats, pricing and configuration varies with each play. I booked third row gallery 1 for Julius Caesar at £35. For the other productions these are £25 but flagged as ‘high seats’ but were not flagged as such for JC. Front row stalls for Nightfall is £40 and only £25 for Marx. All have £15 seats in the back row of gallery 3, there are only three rows on the galleries. Booked both Young Marx and Julius Caser on the days I wanted with no queue...
Happy, of course, but for a new theatre and 2 productions with high-profile castings not a good sign.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 27, 2017 9:29:11 GMT
Booked a front row seat for Young Marx approximately half way through its run, £25 (thankfully no other charges) - I'll wait until I've been in there before deciding if I want to spend more on other productions.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 27, 2017 10:56:43 GMT
except some Mondays which they seem to be holding back After the previewing and opening weeks, the Bridge has Sunday matinee performances instead of Monday evenings. A programme of Monday night events, to include talks, music and other one-offs, will be announced in a couple of months.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 10:58:20 GMT
I booked a few Sunday mats - not a fan in summer when I want some daylight, but on a cold winter weekend they are so cosy!
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Post by kathryn on Apr 27, 2017 11:27:29 GMT
Painless for me too. I went for £25 front row for Young Marx and £35 high seat back row of Gallery 1 for Caesar - on the corner, since I wasn't sure End-on would be best for a Promenade production.
I wonder if a lot of people thought booking would open at 10am? I didn't realise it would be 8am and didn't look until 8:30 ish.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 27, 2017 12:24:41 GMT
We'll demand for the season is really high! I managed to resist the swathes of 60 odd squid seats and chose £15 ones for multiple dates ...
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Post by edmundokeano on Apr 27, 2017 13:07:48 GMT
New theatre or not, this is a theatre in the middle of London which has high-profile casting for it's first two productions... It should not be struggling to sell tickets.
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 27, 2017 13:17:13 GMT
I think it's crazily early for this stuff to be on sale - particularly for the Barney Norris one, why on earth would anyone buy tickets for a new play, no casting announced, over a year in advance?
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Post by fossil on Apr 27, 2017 13:24:34 GMT
Painless booking when the general booking opened at 8.00am. Same queuing system as NT. 25 or so in the queue which went down in a few minutes. If you are after cheaper seats, pricing and configuration varies with each play. I booked third row gallery 1 for Julius Caesar at £35. For the other productions these are £25 but flagged as ‘high seats’ but were not flagged as such for JC. Front row stalls for Nightfall is £40 and only £25 for Marx. All have £15 seats in the back row of gallery 3, there are only three rows on the galleries. Correction - 3rd row gallery 1 now showing as 'high seats'. I was sure they were not flagged as such at 8.00 this morning. Quite a differential in pricing across three rows for gallery 1. Front £90, 2nd row £65 and 3rd row £35.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 27, 2017 15:13:39 GMT
I think it's crazily early for this stuff to be on sale - particularly for the Barney Norris one, why on earth would anyone buy tickets for a new play, no casting announced, over a year in advance? It is early, but people who are very fussy about where they like to sit may book now, e.g. the front-row brigade and the strap-on bargain-hunters and the ideal-seat-erati. I'm sure the Bridge wanted to get some cash flowing in from ticket sales. It must have been just investment and loans up to now. And they wanted to include all three principal auditorium and staging configurations in the first booking season. Incidentally, this season may generate wider interest in other shows. For example, it has piqued my interest in Barney Norris's new play now at the Bush Studio and on tour with Up in Arms. And I've re-considered seeing Nina Raine's current new play, Consent, although it's officially already sold-out.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 15:15:27 GMT
I think it's crazily early for this stuff to be on sale - particularly for the Barney Norris one, why on earth would anyone buy tickets for a new play, no casting announced, over a year in advance? It is early, but people who are very fussy about where they like to sit may book now, e.g. the front-row brigade and the strap-on bargain-hunters and the ideal-seaterati. I'm sure the Bridge wanted to get some cash flowing in from ticket sales. It must have been just investment and loans up to now. And they wanted to include all three principal auditorium and staging configurations in the first booking season. Love this phrase - fear it's a very good description of me!
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Post by Jan on Apr 27, 2017 15:20:07 GMT
except some Mondays which they seem to be holding back After the previewing and opening weeks, the Bridge has Sunday matinee performances instead of Monday evenings. A programme of Monday night events, to include talks, music and other one-offs, will be announced in a couple of months. Oh I see. Sunday opening failed for the NT, not as popular as they expected, hard to see it will be different here.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 27, 2017 15:25:13 GMT
I feel you must have some personal grudge against this enterprise. Please share.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 15:34:35 GMT
I could easily be (ie almost certainly am) wrong, but I felt at the time like R Norris was blaming Sunday openings as a distraction from the fact that his first season didn't get an audience. I've done Sunday mats at the NT plenty of times and I didn't notice a difference between that and other performances. I wonder if it would be different now he has found his feet. I guess it's always going to be more expensive to open seven days a week rather than six just in terms of staff pay, and I assume the NT is well-unionised, whereas a smaller theatre would have fewer overheads. It's quite sad to see the building shut when the rest of the Southbank is heaving.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 27, 2017 15:42:25 GMT
There have been so many people on here saying that Tower Bridge is inaccessible and that they cannot possibly go there, so maybe Sunday matinees will seem a safe environment for them to try the place out? It was just the same with Wales Millennium Centre situated in Cardiff Bay, a whole mile from central Cardiff. Before it opened, I got sick of hearing local people whinge on about how they couldn't possibly envisage travelling all the way down there to such a deserted spot, etc., etc. And now it's far and away the most-visited attraction in Wales.
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Post by foxa on Apr 27, 2017 16:09:13 GMT
You guys are bad for my credit card. I had determined not to book for this - didn't really know much about it and it all seemed so much in advance with nothing in particular to draw me to it but then....I ended up booking £25 tickets for the first two shows. I agree with Xanderl though that booking so far in advance for Nightfall with no cast announced didn't seem particularly appealing. But booking was totally painless and it seems worth trying to support a new venture.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 16:22:43 GMT
You guys are bad for my credit card. I had determined not to book for this - didn't really know much about it and it all seemed so much in advance with nothing in particular to draw me to it but then....I ended up booking £25 tickets for the first two shows. I agree with Xanderl though that booking so far in advance for Nightfall with no cast announced didn't seem particularly appealing. But booking was totally painless and it seems worth trying to support a new venture.That was pretty much my thinking, which is why I went for the half price membership offer. It might not work out, I might not like it but it's a bold, ambitious thing to do that I'd like to see succeed and am willing to give a bit of support to. Plus I did mostly like Hytner's NT so his programming probably will be up my alley.
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Post by Latecomer on Apr 27, 2017 16:44:27 GMT
I do like their return policy too...can return for credit,like the National, up to 48 hours before for £2 per ticket fee. This always makes me book well in advance and is soooo much better than the West End in general (Harry Potter excepted)....and the stuff they have coming up next looks fun too. I fear I too am one of the ideal-seaterati......
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Post by sf on Apr 27, 2017 17:54:19 GMT
I sat on one of those Dorfman ones and it was fine....but I quite like the front seats at Olivier and Lyttleton and I know people sometimes find them uncomfortable!I have booked one for last production at Bridge as only cheaper but close option! ☺ Thanks Latecomer, you are right. I just got an email back from the Bridge Theatre confirming this: "A strapitan seat is narrower and folds away. It may be slightly less comfortable than the other seats around it but it is great value." Presumably "strapitan" is a corruption of the French "strapontin", which means folding seat. I have to say I booked one for 'Young Marx' without knowing exactly what it was (I assumed it would be somehow less comfortable), purely on the basis of the price. If they are what I think they are - similar to strapontin seats pictured in the Dorfman and the Opéra Bastille in Paris - then they shouldn't be too painful.
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Post by Latecomer on Apr 27, 2017 17:58:56 GMT
Welcome sf!
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Post by peggs on Apr 27, 2017 20:10:51 GMT
Currently we will be able to wave at the rest of the audience on the basis that it's quite likely to be some of us but hopefully it'll pick up nearer the time, most people I know who are occasional theatre goers think booking more than a few months in advance is some what undoable as who plans that far ahead, well we all do obviously.
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Post by kathryn on Apr 27, 2017 21:10:13 GMT
Possibly we're a little too used to having to jump in quick to get tickets for our own good! ☺️
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